Job but what we cannot do is stuff our pockets on the way out the door. 4 the files that levandowski took test off a lawsuit between uber and google which ultimately failed when you recall paid google 250 million. Neither company is mentioned in the complaint. What the federal government is saying by moving forward with the prosecution is it was not just a civil wrong, it was also criminal because it was so blatant and affects the ability of companies to automate and be their car. It happened late last night when the officer stopped the suspicious car near elm avenue and almaden boulevard. Police said a person inside the carpet the officers arm, there was a scuffle and the driver drove away, dragging the officer about 30 feet. The officer was taken to the hospital and has since been released. Police eventually found the car but still have not found the driver. San francisco prosecutors will drop charges against a man seen on video attacking a woman outside a condo. Vincent was charged with false imprisonment and other charges on august 11. Than other victims came forward accusing him of pulling a knife on them as they got into a rideshare in the city back in february. Vincent public defender says there is proof vincent was in Southern California at that time. He is also planning to ask the judge to release him from jail with an ankle monitor. Happening now, rideshare drivers on both sides of the state are pushing for better working conditions. In oakland, this afternoon, they are gathering at Taylor MemorialMethodist Church for a roundtable discussion about forming a union. You can see the group theyre wearing a blue shirts. Summer waving blue flags as well. Across the bay, democratic president ial candidate dropped in on a rally, lending his support to both rideshare drivers and dig workers. Christien kafton was at the protest and is outside work headquarters in San Francisco tonight with more. Reporter the drivers today tell us they want to be treated like employees, not independent contractors and president ial candidate, Pete Butigieg says that is a task he wants to take nash and wide. Reporter raich are drunk drivers honked their horns in front of you in in surface go, showing their support for a new bill aiming to classify workers as independent contractors meaning the company is not required to provide benefits. One person drove all the way to los angeles to show her support. The union would mean i can get healthcare, fair wages, i feel like we deserve that. Reporter democratic candidate for president , and indiana mayor, Pete Butigieg showed up to the protest and then took the microphone to lend support. Do we want a Better Future for everybody working whether it is full time in the Traditional Company or not . Can we set it up for that . I think the answer is yes. Reporter organizers say the workers providing services for tech companies, gig workers, including drivers and delivery people deserve to be treated like traditional employees, making minimum wage and earning benefits and is they say they are a growing part of the economy. The thing is that there just happens to be the biggest and has the most like light shining on them right now and that is why we are here today because we are making an example out of them. Reporter uber release day Statement Today saying flexibility is part of the reason so many People Choose to drive for the company and drivers did not have to sacrifice security for that flexibility. We have a and working with stakeholders to find a path forward that provide the minimum earnings guaranteed for drivers, a robust package of portable benefits they can access no matter which Rideshare Company they drive for they did not say that the Company Supports ab 5. Pete butigieg not only supports ab five but wants to take it a step forward. My plan calls for these protections nationally so you dont have to deal with it at the state level but im glad there is leadership on the ground. Reporter the protesters here state say they plan is to carry it onto sacrament or to take their message to state political leaders. That av proposition has already passed and will go before the senate for full vote. Christien kafton, ktvu fox2 news. Governor newsome visited a Sacramento Community college today to highlight a new program that provides two years of free tuition for first time students. The governor visited a classroom at a college in sacramento to tell students about the first time program. The state budget earmarks 42 million in funding to help out 33,000 eligible Community College students here in california. Governor newsome touted such a program when he was campaigning for governor. It is not just a platform, not just a promotion of political promise. It is actually happening. It is achievable and if california can do it, every other state in the nation can do it. Later this week, governor newsome will continue to promote the initiative. Today, 16 women testified in court in the wake of Jeffrey Epsteins death. Bryan mcginnis tells us the testimony comes as prosecutors asked for the sex trafficking charges to be dropped following ebsteins suicide. Today is a day of power and strength. Format alleged sexual abuse victim Jeffrey Epstein appeared a manhattan courtroom for an emotional hearing. It is empowering and upsetting to see how many lives he devastated. It is powerful hearing from all the victims and similar stories. That i have endured. It will still be a rough road. Reporter prosecutors risk requesting to have the indictments dismissed nearly 2 weeks after he committed suicide by hanging himself in a jail cell. He was being held without bail after being pled not guilty to sex abuse charges. A judge held the keyring the hearing to give up victims a chance to speak about their alleged abuse. They were manipulated and victimized and they were child victims. Of mr. Epstein. Reporter 16 of epsteins alleged victims chose to speak in Court Tuesday including virginia do for a. It is not how he died but how he lived. Reporter the case has not been officially defense dismissed. The defense asked the court to investigate epsteins death as are the alleged victims, epsteins lawyers questioning the medical examiners conclusion that he died by suicide. Prosecutors confirmed in court toda investigations into epsteins possible Co Conspirators are ongoing and will continue. In new york, bryan llenas, fox news. You are losing businesses. You are losing customers and any people to stay in oakland to create jobs and at the end, pay taxes. Upset over blight on oakland street. One City Council Member is asking for this to clean up his district. A rental dispute turned crime. Coming up, why 5 people are behind bars because of how they handled someone not paying the rent. A chase from dublin ends near downtown oakland, causing the freeway to be closed for hours. Find out what happened in the suspects vehicle finally stopped on with bonfire 80 westbound of 580. It is sticky out there and warm inland. The fog is trying to make it inland. Details on the 5 day forecast coming up. An hours long closure on westbound 580 in oakland is finally over. All lanes reopened just two hours ago following a chase and crash. It happened west of highway 24. Officers say a reckless driver was trying to evade authorities and ended up wedged between the Center Median and a transit van. Ktvus tom baker was near the scene all day and as this report. Reporter just before noon on westbound 580, a dublin district chp officer got a be on the lookout for a silver chevy impala being driven ratically. A pursuit went from the dublin district through the san leandro chp district into the oakland chp district to just past where 580 intersects with highway 24. The driver, attempting to get away, but wedged between a transit shuttlebus and the median barrier. The chp th walked the chevy but the driver rammed the chp officer and the bus. Chp discharge a weapon but nobody was struck or injured. The officers overcame the resisting driver and transported him to jail. Chp says he was under the influence of drugs. Just after 2 30 with rushhour now bearing down on them, the final cars were removed. At the moment, chp is not talking about the discharged firearm. Tom baker, ktvu fox2 news. Now to a crosscountry road. Trip of a different sort. Today, a specialized a time as car and 3 research lab employees rolled into the Santa Clara ConventionCenter Following a 2000 mile road trip from minneapolis. They tested the cars Adaptive Cruise control and a new technology meant to keep the car in one lane under challenging circumstances. The goal was to see how the Cars Technology operated in varying terrain, weather and driving conditions. We are a research company. Our job is to understand how the stuff works and try to find the gaps, the weaknesses so they can be approved. The cars Automated System to control of accelerating, breaking and steering during most of the trip. The car travel from minneapolis to south dakota, utah and nevada and ended at the drive world conference and expo without any major snags and attendees checked out the car and took demo rides. San jose mayor, sam liccardo unveiled a series of measures aimed at making it easier for homeowners to build additional housing on their property. The new program is designed to streamline a process to contract construct the socalled granny flats in san jose. This comes in response to the growing housing crisis in Silicon Valley and across california. San jose is struggling to meet the mayors goal of building 10,000 Affordable Homes in the city by the year 2020. Nearly 6 million reusable Water Bottles for children are being recalled because of concerns about choking. The recall involves contigo kids cleanable Water Bottles. The company says the clear silicon spout is a hazard. Although no injuries have been reported, the company says it has received reports of detaching and being found in kids mouse. The bottles were sold at major retailers over the last year including target, walmart and costco. Puerto rico is bracing for a possible hurricane as Tropical Storm dorian get stronger. People there are making last minute preparations, stocking up on food and water before the storm hits. The National Hurricane center says dorian may reach puerto rico and the Dominican Republic by thursday, dumping 3 to 6 inches of rain. Officials are warning about the potential for flash floods and power outages. The good news is this will be a very quick storm. This will come through in 6 or 7 hours and be over and we can assess the damage. People were also making sure they have plenty of fuel in cars and trucks and power generators. Puerto rico snow governor declared a state of emergency, opening storm shelters and closing public schools. That is the last thing that puerto rico needs. How bad you think it might be, bill . Emily porter in at least is a strong Tropical Storm, perhaps probably as a category one hurricane but the real story here is the mainlands florida. Puerto rico has high mountains so if this thing comes ashore, it could fall apart rapidly and the greatness for florida, and if it stays intact and goes and gets to a category one or category two, and hits florida on saturday or sunday, labor day weekend, there is a big problem. Everybody is watching the puerto rico thing because first of all, if the island can absorb the energy and it falls apart, it loses speed and that is great. That is typically what happens but not always. So that is what we are waiting on now to see what happens. For us, we have southern showers in the mountains, fog out there, that is sky fox over the bay area and you are looking over the headlines. You can see where the fog is and where it is not the the marine layer is getting pinched at the coast. It was cooler inland today. Temperatures were down into the a good 10 degrees in some places. The mountains, some thunderstorms. I want to show you this system right here. This, you can see it spinning, i will get my pointer on a. This was a Tropical Storm and now it is a system moving further north and you can see over here it is developing with a high moisture level and our increased humidity, thunderstorms. We are seeing thunderstorms around lake tahoe. I just got an email and video from a friend up there. At truckee, theyre getting hammered, right under that cell right now and the rain is really coming down. This could be as late tonight or early tomorrow morning. If that system slides through and there is some moisture, the core of it, around midnight, 1 00 or 2 00 in the morning, if it is warm enough, we might see in lindor north bay thundershowers possible. It is kind of a longshot. It is possibility and with thunderstorms, the longshot always seem to happen but we will watch her closely and that would be late tonight or early tomorrow morning. There are current temperatures, 87 in napa, 95 in concord, running behind where they were last night this time. 11 degrees cooler in santa rosa. 2 degrees cooler in livermore. The fog is still trying to get in line. Temperatures will cool again tomorrow and more as we move through the weekend. Not that hot but we will let you know what you can expect with the chance of thunderstorms and temperatures on the milder side. We will see you back here. Stick around for minute. Breaking news and marin county, a 5 in wildfire kicking up smoke near spirit rock. Evacuation warnings for the east Rancho Santa Margarita area have been issued and firefighters are battling the fire from the air and the ground. Skyboxes on the way. You can see live pictures right there. What are the conditions right now that firefighters will face in the area and marin county . The humidity is not too bad. I know this area really well. I used to live there. To the left of that is highway 1 or sir francis boulevard as it goes into lima. That is near bowl, not a lot of Access Points but the humidity, julie, running relatively high for this time of year for this time of day, about 38 . Temperature, theres a drop right there, hitting the ridgeline and that is what you do, you get them to stop it at the ridgeline as they start to move up. As you know, it has been super dry and for a long time. I mentioned this yesterday. We get a bunch of days of heat in a row and these things happen. There is not a lot of wind out there, fortunately. It is not howling wind. You can see the smoke blowing but that is typical. This area, you know, it is not easy to get in there. There are wrenches back in the little valley, it is just to the north and east of the wood acre area essentially. Once again, evacuation warnings going out for the east Rancho Santa Margarita area in marin county where the five acre wildfire broke out a short time ago. You can see the live pictures there. We just saw an air drop a few moments ago with retardant going down. Resources are battling it from the air and the ground. We would keep our eye on it. I was going to say, you can kind of see the flashpoint on this, see it on the lower left, that first mound you can see it burned up over that hill and down into that next area. You have open flame at the top of the hill and you see it working its way down the hill so there is a little bit of a wind component with is pushing it into the gully. They are worried about it obviously climbing up the next ridge. Steep terrain out there and not a lot of access roads. A couple of fire roads, hiking trails, but not easy to get at. There are no rain no main roads around the, are there . You can ceaser Francis Drake about maybe a mile or half a mile coming towards us like he is doing now. Are there many homes in that area. No, just some ranches, a lot of horse ranches, spirit rock is a really wellknown, throughout the world as a meditational retreat, very famous in the meditation world and so a lot of folks the retreats out there but you are in wood acre area, a famous brew was brewed in that area. It is about as rural marin county as you can get. We will continue to watch this and as soon as we get new information, we will bring into your. Of a board of more than 50,000 is being offered after dozens of burrows were found shot and killed in Southern California. The bureau of Land Management says since may, 42 wild boroughs have been found dead in the Mojave Desert along interstate 15. Authorities say the animals had been shot in the neck. Several organizations have contributed to the reward and today a private donor pledged 30,000, increasing the total reward to 50,000. Coming up, millions of dollars are ready to help brazil fight fires in the amazon. 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